David Tanzer

we need to ramp up the pressure to tax these companies and fund a UBI *now*. if we don't, by the time they've already eliminated these jobs it will be too late, and they'll hold all the cards.

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Für mein erstes Buch habe ich mit mehreren Ärzt*innen gesprochen – u. a. mit @marc-hanefeld.de , der (damals noch?) auch Pilot war und gewohnt, regelmäßig auf seine Flugtauglichkeit überprüft zu werden.

...talk about that and discuss mitigation strategies.

With this team, we decided to re-evaluate frequently, to listen to our gut feeling and to not give up too soon. Next time I do something like this, I will also use those four questions.
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...time with was "If we experience a downward trend, is this a temporary decline or are we on the wrong path?"

Improvement is not always linear. Sometimes, it's not easy to find out whether you are on the downward-part of a J-curve or on a genuine downward trend. I wanted them to think and...
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4 Questions for Evaluating Experiments • Esther Derby When you try something new, when to you expect to see results? These 4 questions will help you know if its time quit or invest more time.

I love this. "How will we know we succeeded?" is a question I ask often, and it's usually not easy to answer.

estherderby.com/4-questions-...

Just a few weeks ago, I facilitated a learning hour with a team at a coaching client about exactly that. And one big part we spent our...
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Unser Journalismus orientiert sich oft an dem was und wie in den USA berichtet wird. Das muss schleunigst aufhören. WaPo ist eh verloren, einzelne Journalist*innen unter Druck und wenn CNN jetzt an Paramount geht wird das üble Konsequenzen haben. Wir müssen unabhängig werden. Auch journalistisch.

Wer kommt zum Code Retreat in Linz morgen?
Ich hab @socrates-conference.at Discount Codes für euch dabei 😁

coderetreat-linz.github.io/website/

Am Samstag findet in Linz ein #CodeRetreat statt - Ein ganzer Tag, um zu lernen, sich ohne Druck auf Details zu konzentrieren und neue Sachen zu probieren.

Ich werde dort sein, wer kommt noch?

coderetreat-linz.github.io/website/

Irgendwie schon interessant, wenn man sich denkt dass mit der damals völlig durchgeknallten "Pizzagate" -Verschwörungstheorie (benutzt gegen Hillary Clinton)-wo man glaubte dass aus einem Keller von einem Pizzarestaurant in Washington aus Kinder missbraucht und wegen "Adenochrom" getötet werden,

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Some tools I used for grafting: A knife, scissors, rubber tape and cut paste.

Closeup: First grafted tree, with black tape right above the soil and a short, thin twig sticking out from the tape.

Closeup of the two cuts, one on the seedling, one on the new branch. Both cuts are somewhat irregular, which is not ideal.

Close-up of the second grafted tree, black tape around the cuts, a short twig sticking out from that. There is cut paste on the top cut.

Tried to graft some #apple #trees for the first time - "Golden Noble" on a seedling I grew for 2 years now. I know the cuts are not good, but it was the best I could do.

Let's hope they grow - for future #bonsai or garden trees...

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

YouTube video by Jo Van Eyck You are Not Ready: Agentic coding in 2026

I found this video by @jovaneyck.bsky.social was a useful overview of where we are as developers with ai tools. Thanks for making it

youtu.be/6W_-YWHKwZ4?...

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Wenn die Stadt Linz die Kohle, die sie angeblich nicht hat, statt in den Bau von Autobahnen, in die Stadtwache (wtf) und in Flüge nach Frankfurt (whattheevenfucker) in Vereine, die Integrationsarbeit machen, in Feminismus und in Öffi-Ausbau und Grünraum stecken würde, wie lebenswert wär diese Stadt.

Mir geht's auch gut! Wir haben uns ja lange nicht mehr gesehen... Ich bin aber auch nicht mehr so regelmäßig auf Meetups o.ä. - gehst du noch hin?

@tompson.bsky.social Happy Birthday! Wie geht's immer?

sein name ist
Wladislaw Heraskewytsch

dank der nur für ukraine-hassende Putinzäpfchen nachvollziehbaren IOC-disqualifizierung kennt ihn und seinen helm nun die ganze welt.

wenn erinnern zum verbrechen erklärt wird, ist als nächstes das denken dran.

They gave clippy the ability to lie and somehow that’s worth a trillion dollars and the entire economy is now based on it 🤷‍♂️

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

The World That Was It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the world. I mean, look at … everything. Massive ongoing wars everywhere, Fascism on the rise, exploding inequality. Shit is fucked up and more fucked up on a global sca...

Your must-read for today is from @tante.cc :
tante.cc/2026/02/06/t...

Ich hatte vor, meine Schwester in den USA zu besuchen. Das sind die neuen Einreisebestimmungen: Auskunft über Social Media, TelNrn (5 Jahre) Email Adressen (10 Jahre) Daten von Familie (Adressen, Telnr.)
und Fingerprint, Iris Scan, DNA.
Ich bleibe in Europa!

Did some quick winter pruning on some of my #bonsai (or, to be more precise, early-stage projects). But made no recordings, just a few quick cuts.

Maybe I'll shoot some new #videos in spring, when #repotting season starts.

Vergleichen wir diesen Jänner mit den 30 Jahren davor, wäre er als ganz normaler oder sogar leicht zu milder Jänner durchgegangen. Der Klimawandel schreitet so schnell und deutlich voran, dass wir unser "NORMAL" bereits signifikant verändert haben.

Grown Organically - Develop Software and Bonsai What does developing software and growing bonsai have in common? Not much at a first glance - But we can use one as a metaphor for the other. In this ta…

The slides for my (English) #agile #austria talk about growing bonsai and what software development can learn from it are now online. Spoiler: It's basically feedback, iteration, continuous learning and small, simple steps.

speakerdeck.com/dtanzer/grow...

Layoffs over the last year:

UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
Estée Lauder: 7000

Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.

Agile Austria Conference 2026 | Konferenz mit Herz ❤️ Internationale Speaker, spannende Vorträge und Networking mit agilen Experten – all das bei der AAC26 in Graz und online. Jetzt Ticket sichern!

Gerade im Zug nach #Graz zur #Agile #Austria Conference - Mein Vortrag über Softwareentwicklung und #Bonsai is heute Abend um 17:45. Ich freu' mich schon darauf!

agile-austria.org

Lauding men for believing they can “judge truthfulness” of an AI more than women, and suggesting this is a Skill gap women have let open up is the dumbest set of words I’ve seen in a hotly contested month.

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Here you can buy the cards: www.eficode.com/pipeline-game

This page also links to a digital version, but I have not tried that yet: pipelinegame.eficode.com/login

It got really cold while I was on a business trip, I hope my #chinese #elm #bonsai survived. I usually put them inside, in a cool room, when temperatures get below -5°C or so. This time, the weather forecast was not that bad when I departed...